Drinking flask



(No Model.)

J. HALL.

DRINKING FLASK.

N0. 246 879. Patented Sept. 13, 1881.

N. PETERS, Phcla-Lflhographcr. wamingtnn, D. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE;

JOSEPH HALL, OF SHEFFIELD, COUNTY OF YORK, ENGLAND.

DRlNKlNG-FLASK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 246,879, dated September 13, 1881.

Application filed April 9, 1881. (No model.) Patented in England March 11, 1881.

- To all whom it may concern:

following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to drinkingflasks, dram-flasks, or drinking-bottles.

This invention consists in so forming the neck of the flask or bottle as that it can be used as a cup to drink from, and thus obviate the use of a separate drinking-cup.

In carrying into effect my invention, the orifice of the neck of the flask or bottle is made at the side instead of at the end, and a partition or division is made across the neck of the flask or bottle where the neck is joined to the body, and the partition or division is pierced at the under side to allow the liquii in the flask to flow into the neck.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the flask. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section thereof as taken through the dotted line AB, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the neck of the flask, as taken through the dotted line C D, Fig 2.

H is the body of theflask. N is the neck. E is the cover or cap. F is the partition between the body and neck of the flask. G is the hole in the lower part of the partition.

I olain1 The construction ofa-combined cup and flask, as shown in the accompanying drawingsthat is to say, the body of flask H, neck or cup N, partition F, with orifice G, and cap or cover E.

JOSEPH HALL.

Witnesses:

E. EDWARDS HEWETT, A. H. PILGRIM. 

